Josef Adendorff

Josef Adendorff was an Afrikaner soldier who served in the British Army's Natal native contingent during the Anglo-Zulu War. Adendorff survived the Battle of Isandlwana in January 1879, and he escaped to Rorke's Drift, where he informed Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead of the annihilation of the British column and their native troops. When Bromhead discounted the native troops and called them "cowardly blacks", Adendorff ridiculed him by pointing out that the natives bravely died on the British side, and sarcastically asked him if he expected the Grenadier Guards to be his opponents and not the fierce Zulus.